CAIR-Chicago’s Sold-Out Dinner a Success
CAIR-CHICAGO’S SOLD-OUT DINNER A SUCCESS (CHICAGO, IL, 2/12/07) – The Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) yesterday held its third annual banquet, titled “Rising to the Challenge.” The sold-out event displayed tremendous diversity among the more than 900 attendees, which included members of Chicagoland’s Muslim community, mosque leaders, public officials, the FBI, […]
CAIR-CAN: Urge MPs to Vote Against Extension of Anti-Terror Act
CAIR-CAN: URGE YOUR MP TO VOTE AGAINST EXTENSION OF ANTI-TERROR ACT (Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 11, 2007) The Canadian Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CAN) is asks all Canadians of conscience to contact their local MP and urge them to vote against the Conservative government’s motion to extend certain provisions of the Anti-Terrorism Act. According to reports, […]
MA: Muslims Find Common Ground on Campus
MA: MUSLIMS FIND COMMON GROUND ON CAMPUS As the violence between Sunni and Shi’a Muslims in Iraq escalates into what many have labeled a civil war, students from the different sects on U.S. college campuses insist they are striving for unity, but admit meeting the needs of both can be difficult. Even as the conflict […]
VA: Interfaith Dialogue Aims to Erase Barriers
VA: INTERFAITH DIALOGUE AIMS TO ERASE BARRIERS BETWEEN ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY Omar Rabb, a member of the Clarence Sabree Islamic Center in downtown Roanoke, demonstrates the Muslim call to prayer. Along with Imam Ibrahim Hamidullah, Rabb and others have visited several churches and temples in the Roanoke Valley for discussions to help ease the barriers […]
NY: Brooklyn’s Muslim Community Impact
BROOKLYN’S KOSHER, AND HALAL, TOO Belligerent birds and rustling rabbits peer out from wire cages lining the wall. Fattened fowl peck and squawk, waddling around each other in their three-foot by three-foot cages. The flock shrieks when a 17-pound turkey is plucked from their cage and hung upside-down from the scale, wings spread wide. The […]
NY: Liaison Fosters Understanding Between Muslims, Police
NY: ISLAM AND THE 70TH POLICE PCT. – LIAISON HELPS FOSTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN COPS AND THE COMMUNITY Call him the middle man between the city’s growing Islamic community and the NYPD. Last week, Erhan Yildirim, the city’s top community coordinator between cops and the Muslim community, came to the 70th Precinct Community Council meeting to […]
TX: Detained Mother, Children Released
TX: DETAINED PALESTINIAN MOTHER AND CHILDREN BEING RELEASED IN TEXAS DALLAS A Palestinian woman and four of her children were released Saturday morning from the Texas immigration detention center where they’ve been held for three months. Immigration officers arrested Salaheddin Ibrahim, his wife, Hanan, and four of their children in November at their Richardson […]
TX: Detained Palestinian Dad May Be Freed
TX: DETAINED PALESTINIAN DAD MAY BE FREED An immigration judge in Dallas set bail at $30,000 Thursday for a Palestinian businessman from Richardson who, along with his wife and children, was detained for three months. The ruling means that Salaheddin Ibrahim, 37, could be released as early as Friday from federal custody in Haskell, Texas. […]
FL: More Hispanic Americans Converting to Islam
FL: MORE HISPANIC AMERICANS ARE CONVERTING TO ISLAM The number of Hispanic Americans converting to Islam is growing rapidly — particularly in New York, California, Texas and Florida, which have the greatest concentration of Hispanic residents. Muslim leaders say interest in Islam has increased in the past few years, and they also note that Muslims […]
CAIR-Chicago: Lawsuit to End Citizenship Delays
CAIR-CHICAGO: IMMIGRANTS SUE TO END DELAYS IN GRANTING CITIZENSHIP When Sana Jalili of Fremont first applied for U.S. citizenship in December 2003, everything seemed to be going well. Jalili, who came to the United States from Pakistan on her parents’ work visas at age 15 and became a legal permanent resident in 2001, aced her […]